NO FRAUD ...no wrongs, that is right atleast. POINT ONE, No Selective Sampling, No Intentional Misconduct, NO PGMS and they don't even have the wherewithall to say ALL THIS ITA AUDIT used was STANDARD FIRE ASSAY. That is a given, we knew all this before, we need out NEWTECH LEACHES, not OPINIONS ...in my opinions of auditors!
RE ""..The only convincing evidence that would be accepted that there is significant metal values in the Athabasca rocks is for BMD to consistently produce gold or other precious metal, in metallic form, from its samples, which, so far, it has failed to do.
BMD claims to have identified a new form of naturally occurring precious metal. The nanoparticles identified by BMD are analysed as non-precious metal (the specific metal is not identified at the request of BMD). The CANMET report specifically states that the non-precious metal is crystalline and gives its crystal structure as the face-centred cubic structure. No precious metal nanoparticles have been observed by BMD. It is therefore misleading to suggest that BMD has confirmed a new form of naturally occurring precious or other metal. .."" In part one here they say THEY HAVE NANO but then say NO( NANO, weird conslucxions for a TECHnical Audit, no worsds like Organeo Metallic Structures, no leach that can but metal into solution layer it in three colors( metals in solutions, nanos in solution WE ALL SAW IT and that is why WE STAY LONG!) that I saw in that beaker I asummed was shocking to minging, so TECH WAHATTTT -WATZZUP? RE: INFO MINE, DISINFO CDNX SPONSORED AUDIT:
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Birch Mountain Resources Ltd. has released the conclusions of an independent technical audit initiated by the Canadian Venture Exchange in September last year. The CDNX retained Associated Mining Consultants Ltd. of Calgary to conduct the technical audit. Its main finding is that the majority of competent assayers examining the data would come to the conclusion that there is little precious metal in the BMD samples of Athabasca rocks and that the sporadic positive results reported are due to interferences, contamination or other known reasons. Birch Mountain considers the audit process to be flawed and disagrees with a number of these conclusions.
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Birch Mountain Resources Ltd - News Release
Birch Mountain receives CDNX-requested technical audit
Birch Mountain Resources Ltd BMD
Shares issued 33,552,966 2001-02-15 close $0.77
Friday Feb 16 2001 News Release
Mr. Douglas Rowe reports
On Sept. 27, 2000, Birch Mountain agreed with the Canadian Venture Exchange to an independent technical audit. The CDNX retained Associated Mining Consultants Ltd. (AMCL) of Calgary to conduct the technical audit.
Birch Mountain considers the audit process to be flawed and disagrees with a number of the conclusions.
The following are AMCL's conclusions:
All the assay results quoted by BMD are supported by assay certificates or reports from laboratories. There is no evidence to suggest that any of the samples were tampered with in any manner.
In AMCL's opinion, there is limited disclosure of negative results, repeated disclosure of the same positive results in different contexts, and promotional and misleading statements in BMD news releases.
The company believes that it has identified nanoparticulate material (nanoclusters) in slides prepared for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) through use of energy dispersive X-ray analysis. The company believes that normal mining assay methodologies have not established the presence of gold, reliably or reproducibly, as the gold occurs in a new form which is not amenable to aqua regia leach or fire assay preconcentration. It is AMCL's opinion that even if gold or other precious metals are present in the samples, the concentrations are so low as to be near to or below the detection limit of the analytical methods.
It is AMCL's opinion that the majority of competent assayers examining the BMD data would come to the conclusion that there is little precious metal in the BMD samples of Athabasca rocks and that the sporadic positive results reported are due to interferences, contamination or other known reasons. The only convincing evidence that would be accepted that there is significant metal values in the Athabasca rocks is for BMD to consistently produce gold or other precious metal, in metallic form, from its samples, which, so far, it has failed to do.
BMD claims to have identified a new form of naturally occurring precious metal. The nanoparticles identified by BMD are analysed as non-precious metal (the specific metal is not identified at the request of BMD). The CANMET report specifically states that the non-precious metal is crystalline and gives its crystal structure as the face-centred cubic structure. No precious metal nanoparticles have been observed by BMD. It is therefore misleading to suggest that BMD has confirmed a new form of naturally occurring precious or other metal.
It would be presumptuous to totally dismiss the theories of BMD regarding the potential for precious metals as nanoparticles or microparticles in the Athabasca rocks. However, such work is the domain of research institutions rather than a junior mining company. If the company is to pursue this high-risk research as its main activity, then this should be made clear to the investing public. AMCL is of the opinion that the current research focus represents a "material change of business" for the company.
AMCL is of the opinion that BMD's research is based on a hypothesis that does not permit verification by conventional and internationally accepted assay or chemical methodologies. At this time AMCL cannot recommend any testing program.
BMD has insisted that any references within the text of this report, that refer to, or may possibly compromise, a U.S. patent application be deleted. AMCL has suggested to Birch that this represents an area of concern for the exchange, as to whether BMD actually has any specific item or technology which may in fact be patentable. AMCL has raised this issue with officers of the company but at the date of this report has not received any answer or suggestion as to how to resolve this issue.
AMCL has obtained and had analysed commercially available gold colloid sols in the five-nanometre particle size range using conventional (mining) assay methodologies.
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Chucka THERE IS A NEW UNSTATED NANO METAL, and we all knew it would not SFA, so where is the beef...ITA had no busniess stating that they THINK that a Junior Mining Company had no business doing R & D in SUCH NEW TECH UNDERSTANDINGS, egads THE WORLD IS NOT FLAT. Happy Columbus Day. The World is expanded and Queen Hessabella really knows it. The support to a NEWTECH in a lattice of Crystal unusual mattrix is so stated as MEANINGFUL, but many NANOTECH FIRMS; TRUST US HERE, 2001 is the year of NANO. Not the ITA NO-NOs. NANO STRUCTURES FRAMWORK POSY BELOW is MORE TECHnical than this DAM IT AL ITA the T should stand for TECHnical so where is the AMCL and CANMET type expected TECHnical WORDINGS??? ? Where ? ITA is a NON event I guess, these larks can't fly - AMCL not BIRCH, BMD and BHMNF needs time I suspect till the PATENT is talked abgout OPEN and IN TRUTH, I rec that such a LIFTING od secracy happen NOW. So, now, talk BMD; Mr President Doug Rowe- issue NEWS ON PATENT and that NEW METAL, we have NOTHING TO LOOSE, trust me DOUG ROWE - I WANT REAL FACTS, scrreeww the lawyers on the patent case who hold u back, GO FORWARD. Comming to America maybe is our need now as was a few months back. The word FREEDOM and Free Spirit needs to be used here now. Something isa wrong with the PROCESS of An ITA there in Canada, take a step backwards, THIS IS NOT HIGH TECH and UNDERSTANDABLE!
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A Different Spin on Memories
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An approach that could reduce the size and increase the speed of magnetic
memories is to use magnetization precession, in which a smaller magnetic
field is used to store information in the form of rotations of the
magnetization direction. Weber et al. (p. 1015; see the Perspective by
Ralph) used spin-injection into a thin ferromagnetic film from a polarized
semiconductor cathode to induce the magnetization precession. Their results
indicate that spin-injection could be a viable route to smaller and faster
magnetic memories.
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Interweaving Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks
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Although most microporous materials are based on inorganic materials,
organic building blocks tied together with metal complexes can also form
microporous materials, but often the pore sizes are small and exchange of
adsorbed specific is difficult. Chen et al. (p. 1021; see the Perspective
by Ferey) report that the condensation of a copper "paddle wheel" complex
with a triangular linker unit results in a large-pore material (pore
diameters of about 16 angstroms) in which two three-dimensional networks
are interwoven. The high thermal stability (up to 250{o}C) and surface area
suggest possible applications in gas sorption and catalysis.
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Virtual Switching of Fluid Flow
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Fluids tend to hold to surfaces that they wet--in lithographic printing,
ink wets only part of the printing plate and leaves the rest dry. Zhao et
al. (p. 1023) patterned fluid microchannels in glass with self-assembled
monolayers that repel aqueous solvents. At low fluid pressures, fluid stays
within the uncoated regions through these "virtual walls." However, as
pressure is increased, surface tension is overcome and the fluid is driven
into nonwetting regions. Such channels could be used to route fluids
through junctions and for increasing gas-liquid mixing in microchannel
networks.
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Particularly Destructive
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Stratospheric denitrification--the removal of HNO3 by particle
sedimentation--is an important process in the ozone cycle because certain
nitrogen-containing compounds that would react with ozone-destroying Cl
radicals become sequestered. Widespread denitrification in the Arctic has
been documented repeatedly, but how this occurs has been unclear. Fahey et
al. (p. 1026; see the news story by Kerr) have now observed a class of
large particles (10 to 20 micrometers in diameter) containing HNO3 that
form during winter in the Arctic stratosphere and that are widely
distributed--over at least 1800 kilometers in horizontal extent.
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Quantum Protection of Ions
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The encoding and manipulation of information on the quantum scale may offer
the opportunity to solve complex problems otherwise intractable to
classical computation methods. However, the interaction of the quantum
system with its environment results in a loss of information--a process
known as decoherence. Earlier theoretical work indicated the existence of
protected environments in which careful manipulation of the quantum bits
could reduce the effect of decoherence; these environments are called
decoherence-free subspaces (DFS). Kielpinski et al. (p. 1013) demonstrate
the ability to place an entangled pair of ions held in an ion trap into
such a DFS, extending the lifetime of the quantum state by an order of
magnitude.
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Scaling Down Nanostructures
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Lithography is a flexible method for creating microstructures but it can be
plagued by resolution problems for dimensions below about 100 nanometers.
Hatzor and Weiss (p. 1019) used the gaps between features in nanostructures
created by electron-beam lithography as templates for creating still-
smaller features. They self-assemble successive multilayers of
mercaptoalkanoic acids and copper ions on the nanostructures and thus
create a smaller gap between existing metal structures. Deposition of
additional metal and subsequent liftoff of the metal-organic layer can
create nanowires 20 nanometers in width and 1 micrometer in length, as well
as small rings or dots within hollow structures.
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Haze over the Indian Ocean
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The atmosphere above the Indian Ocean is influenced by air masses from
Africa and South and Southeast Asia, but little is known about how
pollution from these regions affects air quality over the ocean. Lelieveld
et al. (p. 1031) report results from INDOEX, an international field
campaign that took measurements in 1999 of the long-range transport of air
pollution over the Indian Ocean. Very high pollution levels were observed
over the entire Northern Indian Ocean that can be traced to South and
Southeast Asia. The nature of the pollution is indicative of widespread
biofuel use and agricultural burning.
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Changing Rules of Engagement
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When a predator enters a landscape and encounters prey that have no
previous experience of that predator, the prey can suffer heavily. Berger
et al. (p. 1036; see the Perspective by Gittleman and Gompper), in a study
of wolves and bears preying on moose in North America and Scandinavia, show
that most of the damage is inflicted along the front of the advancing
predator population. However, naive prey quickly become accustomed to the
new predators and change their behavior to avoid them. These findings bear
on current human reintroductions of predators and on how fauna may have
responded to advancing human populations during the Pleistocene.
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A Family of Larks
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Familial advanced sleep phase syndrome is inherited autosomally. These
individuals have unusual sleep cycles and wake up abnormally early each
morning. In one such family, Toh et al. (p. 1040; see news story by
Chicurel, 12 Jan.) report that this characteristic is due to a single
nucleotide mutation in the human Period2 gene; this blocks phosphorylation
by casein kinase Ie. In a satisfying parallel with studies in animals, a
deficit in such phosphorylation shortens the animal's circadian period, due
to altered function of per in the molecular feedback loops that make up the
circadian clock. This striking effect of a genetic polymorphism on human
behavior paves the way to understanding the basis of human variation in
daily rhythms.
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Sealing Your Neighbor's Fate
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During vulval development in Caenorhabditis elegans, a signal arises from
an anchor cell that activates the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase
signaling pathway to specify the cell fate of three vulval precursor cells,
with the primary fate effected in the P6.p cell and secondary fate in the
adjacent P5.p and P7.p cells. Berset et al. (p. 1055) show that the
different fates are produced in adjacent cells through the action of two
antagonistic signaling pathways. Upon activating the MAP kinase signaling
pathway, the primary fate of P6.p is induced. A lateral signal moves out
from P6.p that up-regulates NOTCH in P5.p and P7.p. NOTCH turns on the MAP
kinase phosphatase gene lip-1. LIP-1, in turn, blocks MAP kinase activity
in P5.p and P7.p and allows the secondary cell fate to develop.
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Kinase and Channel in One Package
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An ion channel that contains its own functional protein kinase domain has
been cloned and characterized by Runnels et al. (p. 1043) The channel,
called TRP-PLIK, is most closely related to melastatin, a channel protein
associated with progression of melanocytic tumors. TRP-PLIK also appears to
interact with the key signaling enzyme phospholipase C-b1. Mutagenesis
studies of the kinase domain and the dependence of channel conductance on
intracellular adenosine triphosphate both indicate that the kinase activity
of the channel regulates channel function. This channel likely links
signaling from the cell membrane to the control of proliferation or of
other calcium-dependent processes within the cell.
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Coordinating Entry
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A variety of proteins that help promote endocytosis, the inward budding of
vesicles from the plasma membrane, possess an amino-terminal domain called
ENTH. Two reports show that binding of proteins to the membrane lipid
phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) plays a key role in
endocytosis (see the Perspective by Gillooly and Stenmark ). Itoh et al.
(p. 1047) show that the ENTH domain interacts with PIP2. Cells expressing a
mutant of epsin that could no longer bind PIP2 exhibited a block in
clathrin-mediated endocytosis. In addition, Ford et al. (p. 1051; see the
cover) show that PIP2 binds to another ENTH domain-containing protein,
CALM, and helps clathrin bind to the membrane.
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Dead But Not Inert
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Water and nutrients move passively upward through plants from roots to
leaves via xylem vessels, dead cells that have hitherto been thought to
function as mere pipes. Zwieniecki et al. (p. 1059; see the news story by
Brown, 26 Jan.) describe an active mechanism for regulating long-distance
flow through the xylem. They show that the resistance to flow in these
rigid tubes can be changed rapidly (within seconds) and reversibly as a
function of the concentration of trace ions flowing through the conduits.
This finding breaks the paradigm of xylem as inert pipes and changes our
understanding of water transport in plants.
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How Genes Help Each Other Out
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Biological insights are often more easily made by working with genetically
similar inbred organisms. However, in wild outbred populations, genes
interact to counter or "buffer" each other's variation, often within the
same biochemical pathway. Hartman et al. 1001 review previous studies of
double mutations in inbred organisms, especially the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, that may serve as a guide for understanding the much greater
complexity of these interactions in wild-type lineages.
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